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Learning humility, purity and simple-living from those who don't take
too much from the earth...
Targetting the problems of hunger, disease and oppression that sadden
their lives...
Inspiring in each other trust, confidence and support for one another...
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MV Foundation is a complex organization employing a wide range of strategies to achieve its twin objectives of eradicating all forms of child labor and universalizing education. MVF focuses on the issues of bonded labor, education and child marriages. It concentrates on enrolling the children in school and ensuring that they remain there. Also, providing summer camps and bridge courses for children who need smooth transition to middle school is t more...

Achievements

MVF has mobilised communities to withdraw hundreds of thousands of children from work and joining them into schools covering over 2500 villages in eight districts of Andhra Pradesh. Simultaneously, it has strengthened local institutions such as the Gram Panchayats and School Education Committees, in favour of children's right to education. Through setting up of Child Rights Protection Committees a more...

Summary

MVF has an uncompromising position on abolition of child labour in all its forms, even as it perceives .every child out of school as child labourer.. Propelled by a set of non-negotiable principles that guide the programme, its one-point agenda is to ensure that no child works and all children go to schools.